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The Final Solution to the Democratic Party’s Unpopularity
In the past 24 years the Democratic brand of economic moderation and social liberalism has been only slightly more popular than the GOP’s brand of White Christian blood-and-soil hegemony. In large part, I suspect this simply reflects the dying out of the Greatest Generation, which remembered the programs that the Democrats of the 1930s and 1940s had enacted to make their lives better; and their replacement by younger generations which know the Democrats mainly as the party of civil rights for minorities. There is a fundamental disaffection for both parties. Arguments and graphs to back that up are at:
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-democrats-problem-in-senate.ht
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Democrats are *less UNpopular* than the GOP. Ultimately the reason for Democrats being unpopular is that the Democratic “brand” is “socially liberal, economically moderate,” while the US electorate as a whole is socially moderate and economically progressive, as shown in the scattergraph below:
http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2020/11/democrats-less-unpopular-party.htm
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For Democrats, the path forward is to embrace, and pass, some simple economic fixes (like raising the minimum wage and ending the abuse of salaries, in addition to making affordable healthcare universal) that materially improve—and are *seen* to materially improve—average Americans’ lives, while allowing for some flexibility on issues that people perceive as ones of morality (and hence are hard to compromise about) in such a way that nobody’s ox gets gored too much. And completely unsurprising, the GOP will oppose every fix with all its might.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The dynamic of the population has changed enough now that the minority is capable of changing elections second. If enough continue to show up at the polls more social programs are a given. In the digital age that may be a must.
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And scientists! SCIENTISTS! WTF!?
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Quote:In order to form a functioning governing majority in the Senate, the Democratic Party must find a way to reliably bring several more States into the fold. There is a way to do that so that Democrats aren't helpless in the face of a rural-State packed filibuster-proof GOP Senate:
Originally posted by THG:
The dynamic of the population has changed enough now that the minority is capable of changing elections second. If enough continue to show up at the polls more social programs are a given. In the digital age that may be a must.
A roadmap to a Democratic Senate supermajority
https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-roadmap-to-democratic-senate.ht
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Here’s the interesting thing. If you want to flip a Senate seat, the most efficient use of resources is in a *small* State, since flipping just 100,000 or 200,000 votes there makes all the difference, and the media markets - and their expenses - are a lot cheaper. With that in mind, I took a look at the 2018 Congressional results to see if I could identify 30 States where the Democrats might, admittedly with lots and lots of effort, elect Senators. I came up with 32, 5 of which are smaller states where a relatively small shift can make all the difference.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Thanks, 2nd.
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The real solution: https://fundrazr.com/71jIY1?ref=ab_f9ZUS0
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In order to form a functioning governing majority in the Senate, the Democratic Party must find a way to reliably bring several more States into the fold. There is a way to do that so that Democrats aren't helpless in the face of a rural-State packed filibuster-proof GOP Senate:
Originally posted by THG:
The dynamic of the population has changed enough now that the minority is capable of changing elections second. If enough continue to show up at the polls more social programs are a given. In the digital age that may be a must.
A roadmap to a Democratic Senate supermajority
https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-roadmap-to-democratic-senate.ht
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Here’s the interesting thing. If you want to flip a Senate seat, the most efficient use of resources is in a *small* State, since flipping just 100,000 or 200,000 votes there makes all the difference, and the media markets - and their expenses - are a lot cheaper. With that in mind, I took a look at the 2018 Congressional results to see if I could identify 30 States where the Democrats might, admittedly with lots and lots of effort, elect Senators. I came up with 32, 5 of which are smaller states where a relatively small shift can make all the difference.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Interesting...
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Quote:Even more interesting:
Originally posted by THG:
Interesting...
Making the Most of the Coming Biden Boom
The economic outlook is probably brighter than you think.
A vaccine is coming. Nobody is sure which of the promising candidates will prevail, or when they’ll be widely available. But it’s a good guess that we’ll get this pandemic under control at some point next year.
And it’s also a good bet that when we do the economy will come roaring back.
OK, this is not the consensus view. Most economic forecasters appear to be quite pessimistic; they expect a long, sluggish recovery that will take years to bring us back to anything resembling full employment. They worry a lot about long-term “scarring” from unemployment and closed businesses. And they could be right.
But my sense is that many analysts have overlearned the lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, which was indeed followed by years of depressed employment, defying the predictions of economists who expected the kind of “V-shaped” recovery the economy experienced after earlier deep slumps. For what it’s worth, I was among those who dissented back then, arguing that this was a different kind of recession, and that recovery would take a long time.
And here’s the thing: The same logic that predicted sluggish recovery from the last big slump points to a much faster recovery this time around — again, once the pandemic is under control.
Biden and his surrogates shouldn’t hesitate to call out Republicans, both in Washington and in state governments, when they try to sabotage the economy — which, of course, they will. I won’t even be surprised if we see G.O.P. efforts to impede the wide distribution of a vaccine.
What, do you think there are some lines a party refusing to cooperate with the incoming administration — and, in fact, still trying to steal the election — won’t cross?
Paul Krugman has been an Opinion columnist since 2000 and won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade and economic geography.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20201120030921/https://www.nytimes.com/202
0/11/19/opinion/joe-biden-economy.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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